Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272017AbTGRVYC (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:24:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272014AbTGRVU0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:20:26 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:40919 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270384AbTGRVQk (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:16:40 -0400 Subject: Re: Bitkeeper From: Alan Cox To: nick@snowman.net Cc: Rik van Riel , Richard Stallman , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058563709.19558.79.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 18 Jul 2003 22:28:29 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 953 Lines: 22 On Gwe, 2003-07-18 at 21:22, nick@snowman.net wrote: > How about all of you take a much nicer tilt on this, and ask McVoy (who's > already giveing you the software free) his price to GPL bitkeeper. Make Larry a clear business case and I'm sure he will. However even though I don't agree with Larry on a lot of things I do agree that there isn't a sane case for him to GPL that software. Larry actually had exactly these and related discussions before he ever went to Linus and others with the arrangement he proposed about free if your logs are public. If you want to make something replace bitkeeper make it better. When Larry has customers forcing him to write bk to [whatever] convertors you've won. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/